Zilog Announces New Z8051 Microcontroller Product Family Featuring a Wide Array of Industry-Standard 8051-Based Microcontroller Solutions

New targeted customers within the world of IXYS products, with existing embedded design platforms using the 8051 core, now have an MCU supplier committed to the long-term support of their manufacturing needs with a wide range of peripheral mixed-signal circuits, driver ICs, power management circuits and power semiconductors.

This powerful Z8051 microcontroller provides a highly flexible and cost-effective solution to a variety of embedded control applications. Development software is readily available from numerous third-party tools support centers, which often means no change to the development environments that design engineers are already using for their 8051 platforms.

“Zilog, as a part of IXYS, maintains a continuing commitment to supporting our customers with a long product life cycle, especially in power management, where IXYS has been growing worldwide. With the growth of digital power management in energy-efficient products, for clean energy generation, automation, appliances, automotive, lighting and telecommunication, we believe that also offering the popular Z8051 allows us to accelerate the adoption of our MCU solutions in these markets,” said Steve Darrough, Zilog’s VP of Marketing. “The world of IXYS, especially for our customers, now includes power semiconductors, analog ICs, Mixed Signal ICs, SSRs, MCUs and RF devices to complete a synergy of system design possibilities like no other semiconductor company. These are indeed exciting times for Zilog and IXYS.”

Zilog’s Z8051 products and developmentkits are now available for customers that place orders through Zilog’s distribution or representatives.